Göknil Sarıoğlan

Who is Göknil Sarıoğlan? (1970- Istanbul)

She graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of English Business Administration. Her drawing and cartoon studies, which started in high school, continued with her professional working life.
The artist received workshop training on Sumi-e ink painting between 2015-2021, and completed her education, which was traditionally based on the master-apprentice principle, at the advanced level of the workshop. She was deeply influenced by the Japanese aesthetic understanding, and at the same time, she continued the Bushido personal development and leadership workshop, which constitutes the life philosophy of the samurai.

In addition to her Sumi-e ink painting studies, which have been continuing for about ten years, she has transformed the existential story of this ancient art into an enjoyable research adventure in the footsteps of the masters regarding her unique aesthetic understanding and the impact it has created on different cultures. The artist, who has participated in three solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions to date, reflects her lyrical, sometimes abstract expressionist form of expression on canvas by using different materials outside of the traditional, and improvisationally reflects it in her paintings.

Since 2020, he has been continuing his painting studies under the guidance of Mimar Sinan University Painting Department graduates.

Art Perspective

In his paintings, brush strokes that wander on the border of chaos and order freely express his enthusiastic mood. Technically, monochrome color transitions provided by multi-layered ink tones dominate his paintings drawn with ink on acid-free natural papers. For him, the ground on which the painting is made is a mirror that shows the soul of the objects, and the figures are described not as they appear, but through the projections they leave in the mind.